Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-28
CRUELTY OF WOMEN.

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Of the Modsra Educator.
Woman merits the worlds love and
admiration. and in her highest estate
she will always be the ideal of painter,
poet, novelist. and of society in its best
condition. and yet it must be confessed
that there is cruelty in woman which
demands much attention from the mod
ern educator and from the penal code
of the State. The Illinois Humane So
ciety is met constantly by the awful
fact of the cruelty of that being for
whom any working-man will rise an&
give up his place in the car. He 10
right in doing it in the name of tho
noble ones of the sex, right in acting in
the name of his mother or sister, but %
far as the particular woman is con-
cerned, he may have given his place to
being who whipped her child half to
death before she left home. or will whip
it when she gets back from her street.
car excursion. To knock q child over
is quite luxury to many female to
whom man gives his place in the street.
car.
The Chicago Humane Society has re-
Gently brought into the city little
twelve-year-old girl whose life for .
year or two would make good page
in '.Dante's Inferno" She was sent
out to a family which dearly and ten
derby desired to adopt some friendless
child and give it the blessing of home.
To the music of '.HOme. Sweet Home"
the child went out to this paradise in
the country. The husband and wife
who received the charge proved to be
church members of the kind who arc
not saved by works. Whether at fam
lily worship the deacon sang that night
the hymn
"A charge to keep have"
and whether the little stranger found
on her bedroom wall motto, well
framed and expressing a desire to have
God bless our home. has not yet ap-
peared in the evidence, but it is dread
fully certain that the child did not
find any bed-clothes, or clothes for her
self, but she found heavy farm work to
do before day and after dark, out in
the fields, when the temperature was
far below zero; she found abuse in
doors worse than the weather without;
no trace of humanity from the Chris
tian woman, and by kind of poetic
justice, when our Humane Society
found the little victim with her hands
aud cvr,ol1nv 20 Ao,rI1n q.
freezing, the angel of the house was of
at church!
Now this IS the kind of woman whose
neck halter would be kind of orna-
ment. No Elizabeth collar would SO
become that part Of womanly beauty.
That neck is of no account in the
world, there being no brain at one end
and no heart at the other. The child.
or. rather, the ruins of the child, are ut
Il hospital here in the city.
Many women are wonderfully hu-
name toward their gentleman friends.
but heartless toward their own sex;
hence. their kindness is not a culture
nor high nature, but the accident Of
the hour, only form of gilt spread
over tin, brass or pewter. The misers
are not all of the masculine gender.
under the handsome bon
net at the theater or the church. there
beats heart which has never revealed
any form of mercy to animal or man.
kind.
1t may well be hoped that such con-
duct is exceptional; but the point in de-
bate is that this kind of severity is as
common among women rs it is among
men. The word woman does not
mean kindness. 1t should, and per-
haps will, but the woman host is still
on the march, and has not reached. by
many mile. that height of soul called
If Blue Beard was cruel,
SO was Queen Elizabeth; if Captain
Kidd was a pirate. Kate Bender was
quite as ready to kill man for a few
dollars. We all love the dear. good
women when they are educated and
refined and would rather permit q
mouse to escape than to kill one; but
we do not desire to be blinded to tho
fact that woman can sometimes equal
man in meriting a good hanging.
Prof: SUing. in Chicago Joxrnal.